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Re: Today is Sun fast day
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2014 Nov 3, 15:07 -0500
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2014 Nov 3, 15:07 -0500
OK Frank, Have you finally completely forsaken Chicago for Rhode Island? Rudely enquiring minds want to know. Fred Hebard mbiew@comcast.net On Nov 3, 2014, at 2:31 PM, Frank Reed wrote: > Today is "Sun fast day". The Sun is early to the meridian (and all of its other appointments) today by 16 minutes and 26 seconds or equivalentally 4� 06.4' of longitude. During the next three months, the Equation of Time, which is the traditional name for the amount by which the Sun is fast or slow, relative to a true clock, will swing from 16:23 fast to 14:14 slow. Here in central Rhode Island, the Sun reaches the meridian, "high noon", a little more than half an hour before 12:00 o'clock zone time today, while on February 11, the Sun will cross the meridian at almost exactly 12:00 zone time. That's a big change for three short months. > > Reminder: analemma.com is a nice old web site with lots of interesting material on this topic. > > -FER > > >
